At Open Research Europe we provide our readers with a wide variety of content to explore, from the genomics of extant cats to the transcendental linguistics of Friedrich von Hardenberg’s Fichte Studies. However, we also understand the struggles of keeping up to date with the latest research in your area. Therefore, we aim to provide a number of options to ensure you can easily find out about the latest content that is most relevant to you.
There are five main ways you can track content on the Open Research Europe platform.
Gateways
Our gateways provide a dedicated hub for each Horizon 2020 program section. In each gateway, you will find published articles that are linked to projects funded by that particular program section. By clicking the ‘Track’ button, you can ensure you will be alerted via email whenever new content is posted in that gateway, helping to keep you on top of the latest research coming out of that program section. You can manage these alerts via your account.
The current gateways we have are:
- Enhanced European Innovation Council (EIC) Pilot
- European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
- Excellent Science
- Focus areas
- Industrial Leadership
- Science with and for Society
- Societal Challenges
- Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation
Each of these gateways is then broken down further into areas that correspond to the individual funding schemes. For example, the Excellent Science gateway is broken down into European Research Council, Future and Emerging Technologies, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions and Research Infrastructure. Here you can find only articles relating to these initiatives which should help to narrow your search further to find the content that most interests you.
Research Alerts
Even more granular than the gateways, there is also the option to track the progress of each research output published on Open Research Europe using the same ‘Track’ button. Tracking an article will trigger an email alert whenever there is activity on that article, including a new review being posted, public comments being added, or a revised version being published.
There is also a dedicated RSS feed for content that provides users and applications to access article updates in a standardized, computer-readable format.
Browsing options
As well as being alerted when new content is posted, you can also conduct your own searches for relevant material directly on the platform. This can be done across the whole platform or within one of the gateways – whatever makes the most sense for you! There is the option to simply search by keyword or to open the ‘Advanced Search’ tab to apply additional filters to further refine your search. The filters currently available in this tab include:
- Subject area – follows the Frascati manual research areas
- Article type – see here for a breakdown of our article types depending on your subject area
- H2020 project ID
- H2020 project acronym
- Funding bodies
You can also choose which aspect of the research output you would like to search (title, abstract, full text) or even search for particular authors. After all these filters there is also a check box in case you would like to limit your search to only include content that has already passed peer review.
Blogs
We regularly upload new blog posts on a variety of topics, including the publishing process, the open peer review model as well as a research spotlight series. We recommend checking this blog for regular informative posts on a variety of aspects of publishing with Open Research Europe.
All of our blogs are frequently promoted on the Open Research Europe Twitter account, including the research spotlight series. This channel is where you’ll find the latest announcements related to the platform, so make sure to follow the account!
Additionally, if you sign up to stay informed, you will receive regular newsletters from us, so you’ll never miss any of the exciting developments we have coming up.
